The rotation of LAGEOS and its long-term semimajor axis decay: A self-consistent solution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 17861-17872

  Farinella, Paolo ^a   Vokrouhlický, David ^b,c   Barlier, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAGEOS; MODEL; SATELLITE ROTATION; SPIN AXIS;

EID: 0030427921     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb00108     Document Type: Article

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